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The inter tourist season is an opportunity that the Canaries can not afford to lose. As a result, the Canarian government is drawing up plans to test all arrivals to...

The return to school on Lanzarote looks increasingly doubtful as the island suffers a second wave of Covid-19 infections. The Canarian education councillor had admitted that no return to school...

It was a question of when rather than if, but Germany has finally added the Canaries to the rest of Spain on its “blacklist” of countries to which travel is...

The “Teguise pact” may be the most important consequence of the huge outpouring of concern following the killing of the street dog Timple in July. Timple died of suffocation after...

The Canaries has introduced a free insurance policy which will reimburse tourists for any costs incurred from Covid-19. First published in Gazette Life, September 1st 2020. The initiative, which was...

Canarian President Ángel Victor Torres informed islanders yesterday that he had received the assurances of Spain's employment minister, Yolanda Díaz, that ERTE (furlough) schemes would be extended “for as long...

Following a spike in new coronavirus infections last month, the Canarian government finally followed the rest of Spain and introduced laws making mask use compulsory in public streets and indoor...

Last month, King Juan Carlos 1 announced that he would leave Spain to live in exile. In a letter to his son, the ruling monarch King Felipe VI, the ex-monarch...

The figures are sobering. Lanzarote broke records for new coronavirus cases on two consecutive days last week, and the daily total of positive tests dwarfs those that were registered at...

An act of faith at an unprecedented time – that was the official opening of the new, five-star Hotel Fariones last Wednesday evening, as fireworks lit up a sweltering night...